Subj : Re: floppy disks
To : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 10:40 am
-=> Nightfox wrote to StormTrooper <=-
Ni> Re: Re: floppy disks
Ni> By: StormTrooper to Nightfox on Mon Apr 28 2025 09:28 am
St> There was a time, around 95/6 where the with burning software was ALL
St> buggy. If you burnt a CD using win95, it would become useless on any later
St> O/S I'm can't attest to what the actual error is, but I can attest it was
St> a thing.. had a series of CDs that wouldn't read, hung on to them for
St> years til I discovered what the issue was.
Ni> I've seen some weird things like that. One thing I noticed is that if
Ni> I burned CDs on the maximum speed, they'd often read okay in my PC, but
Ni> other CD-ROMs and CD players might have trouble reading it. I found
Ni> that it was best to burn CDs at the slowest speed available, and that
Ni> generally helped.
A rule of thumb that I used was to use half the speed of the disk, or burner.
Burning TOO slow could yield suboptimal results. The dyes and burners are
designed for higher speeds.
